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Spring 2020 series
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MARCH 17 – The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah Broom
MARCH 24 – Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call to American Independence by Harlow Giles Unger
MARCH 31 – State: A Team, A Triumph, A Transformation by Melissa Isaacson
APRIL 7 – No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
APRIL 14 – Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
APRIL 21– Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years by Julie Andrews (and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton)
APRIL 28 – Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
MAY 5 – *SPECIAL EVENT, presented in collaboration with Central Library’s Local History & Genealogy Division
Book Review 12:12pm-12:52pm
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Tour of the Dinkle Exhibit 1:30pm-2pm
“Based on careful analyses of multiple historical documents, Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation.” (William Julius Wilson, author of The Truly Disadvantaged)
